New Shotwell Version 0.8.0 Released with Video Support, Online Video Publishing and More

Shotwell just got an new version 0.8.0 with many new impressive features that makes it one complete photo and video management application for Linux.

New Features

• Video support for most major video formats, including importing them off of camera and adding them to events and tags
• Publish videos to major web services, including YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and PicasaWeb
• Runtime monitoring of library directory and auto-import of newly created files
• Background writing of metadata (tags, titles, ratings, orientation, and exposure date) to master files (user-configurable)
• Flagging photos for batch operations
• Set multiple photos to desktop background slideshow
• Numerous translation updates
• Various bug fixes

To install or upgrade Shotwell, run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install shotwell 

It is highly recommended for existing users to upgrade Shotwell.